Today is the official beginning of the B’ak’tun Waning project, the lead-up to the 2012 apocalypse as curated by David Morneau in 12 tracks and brought to you by Immigrant Breast Nest. Speak Onion starts it off with Nonlinear Division, a locust plague of a track that will leave no doubt as to the nature of this project. Find it here or on soundcloud.
So begins the end.
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)
The excellent Solipsistic NATION podcast features Immigrant Breast Nest this week. This includes a fresh mix of I.B.N. tracks as well as an interview with Dan “Speak Onion” Abatemarco and David B. Applegate. Want to know the story behind the Immigrant Breast Nest name? Want to know the origins of the AMSCRAY release? Want to hear a new and unreleased Speak Onion track? You’ll find all that plus great music on this week’s profile of Immigrant Breast Nest on Solipsistic NATION.
http://solipsisticnation.com/solipsistic-nation-no-262-immigrant-breast-nest/
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)
Our midwest comrades at Placenta Recordings have dropped their latest compliation of absolutely action-packed music, and it includes your boy Speak Onion with a brand new and exclusive track, as well as a hot joint featuring long-time friend of I.B.N., Xrin Arms.
‘Placenta Family Tree – Disc 4’ can be had over at http://www.archive.org/details/ThePlacentaFamilyTree-Disc4.
Tracklisting:
Grindthieves, the finest source for new hotness in all kinds of under-the-radar music, especially hard electronics, is back after a little hiatus, and they want you to know about the Digit216 vs. Speak Onion: Battle at Silent Barn. We figured they’d enjoy hearing this audio slugfest. It seems they did:
“I would LOVE to hear this shit at a sound system near me. Fuuuck.”
If you don’t already have IBNo17: Battle At Silent Barn in your life, go get it (Download IBN017: Digit216 vs. Speak Onion- Battle At Silent Barn). And whatever you do, keep looking at Grindthieves for releases, mixes, shows, and all manner of great stuff.
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)
The brilliant Solipsistic Nation podcast has featured Speak Onion in their recent show about people who use iphones/ipads/ipods to make electronic music. This show features various artists who use Apple’s mobile hardware in different ways to make all kinds of electronic music. The last 10 minutes or so of the show are devoted to our boy, Speak Onion, including an interview and his live set from last January, Speak Onion at Brecht Forum, January 19, 2009. Listen to Solipsistic Nation No. 193 right here.
Those of you know who’ve seen SO’s ruinous live styles may know that all those beats and loops are coming from an iphone running Beatmaker. They may get ripped apart afterwards, but that’s where they start. So go grab the new episode of Solipsistic Nation, and subscribe to their podcast while you’re there, because there’s plenty of new and awesome electronic music coming out of there every week.
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)
Clairaudient has been hard at work lately developing strange new frontiers in choreography and motion-controlled soundscapes. The deranged dance/noise duo performed in March at Chelsea Piers as part of a benefit for Haiti Relief, and in case you missed it, the video is below:
This piece, “Underneath It All, I’m Just A Skeleton” is a preview of what you can expect at Clairaudient’s upcoming appearance at the Alternative Arts Association Dance Showcase. Clairuadient will be busting moves and blowing speakers along with plenty of NYC’s other most cutting=edge choreographers. Come check it out!
Saturday, May 29 at 8pm
Nicu’s Spoon Theatre
38 W. 38th st. (b/t 5th ave. and 6th ave.)
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)
Heathen Harvest has just posted up a review of Metabolor by Speak Onion. Read it here. They had some good stuff to say!
“…a raucous form of extreme soundwork that is equal parts hardcore techno, drum’n’bass and noise. This is the sound of the U.S. underground Breakcore scene, a quickly evolving genre, and Speak Onion is one of it’s masters.”
That’s right. Boss of NYC drum’n’noise.
Download the record right here.
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)
http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-02-09/music/speak-onion-s-wii-teenage-riot/
The Village Voice is hip to NYC’s boss of drum’n’noise. The feature includes some insight into what the hell Speak Onion is on about, a review of Trigger Pusher, and some background on I.B.N. They said, among other glowing praise:
“Only the Floor Is Rotten” may teem with enough nasty, pixilated bass synthesizers and stuttered tripwire breakbeats to satiate a dozen warehouses packed full of revelers, but the relentless waves of twinkling keyboard figures underneath all that havoc come bearing cosmic melodic gifts. “The Last Thing You Remember,” meanwhile, pushes the noise-as-bracing-assault envelope with a fuck-you intensity, mashing reams of hyperventilating wavelength chirp together with evil-algorithm, bit-crush malevolence.”
Yeah, that’s about right.
So grab the Village Voice this week to get a piece of Immigrant Breast Nest history! And stay tuned for future Speak Onion news, including the upcoming show on 3/14 at The Charleston in Williamsburg and the upcoming split release with Xrin Arms!
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)
Regen magazine recently posted a review of Speak Onion’s Metabolor (IBN002). Check out the review here. Regen says of Metabolor,
“For these brave few that seek out breakcore for their listening enjoyment, Speak Onion is the man for the job. Blending the intricacies of breakcore with the sheer power of noise, Metabolor is perfect for the breakcore fanatic,”
and
“Speak Onion brings forth gunfire drums and imminent doom with his music,”
and
“…but those well-versed in the genre [breakcore] will find Speak Onion a strong player in the field.”
among other fantastically positive things. We are not surprised. Speak Onion is the boss of NYC drum’n’noise and he doesn’t stop at Metabolor, recently having dropped Trigger Pusher on us, and with Snow Braid— a split with Xrin Arms— about to drop, the madness continues.
So grab Metabolor and Trigger Pusher and catch Speak Onion playing for free at Coco66 next month to see what this is all about.
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest).
